On this day 250 years ago at Natick, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a town meeting unanimously voted that

we the inhabitants of Natick, in town-meeting assembled, do hereby declare . . . that, should the honourable Continental Congress declare these American Colonies independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, we will, with our lives and fortunes, join with the other inhabitants of this Colony, and with those of the other Colonies, in supporting them in such measure, which we look upon to be both important and necessary, and which, if we may be permitted to suggest our opinion, the sooner it is come into the fewer difficulties we shall have to contend with, and the grand objects of peace, liberty, and safety, will be more likely speedily to be restored and established in our once happy land.

Source: https://declarationproject.org/?p=517

On this day 250 years ago in New York, 31-year-old John Tenny of the Penobscot Indians was promoted to First Lieutenant. Tenny had enlisted in May 1775 and continued to servein the Continental Army until July 1780.

Source: https://washcollreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sce-kitri-post.pdf

On this day 250 years ago in the Chesapeake Bay, four seamen from the HMS Ranger stole a boat and rowed to shore where they surrendered to Maryland militia. The four seamen were Americans (one from Boston and three from Philadelphia) who had been impressed into British service.

Source: Wrike at 58.